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This book is especially dedicated to a phase and a particular sector of 'The Battle of the Ardennes': the engagement of the Kampfgruppe Peiper between Losheim and Stoumont from 16 to 25 December 1944.

On December 17, 1944, a column of vehicles from the 285th FAOB (Field Artillery Observation Batallion) passed through Malmédy and continued southward under the command of Lieutenant Lary. It reaches the crossroads of Baugnez and falls under the fire of Panzer IV commanded by Werner Sternebeck. In short, the Americans undergo a new attack. Finally, the Americans are gathered in a prairie, a tragic incident then occurs. Massacre in Malmédy? In fact the scene takes place in Baugnez a few kilometers from Malmedy.

Massacre or incident?

Waffen SS reportedly massacred dozens of US prisoners of war (some say more than a hundred). This version of events has remained unchanged for nearly forty-five years.

A chance meeting brought the author into contact with the 2ndArmored Division, the unit which, at the end of December 1944, during the offensive of the Ardennes, was recalled from Germany to face the 2nd Panzer Division. From then on, the author took an interest in the offensive of the Ardennes and then in the role of the Kampfgruppe Peiper, in order to discover the truth about this unit.

This book is the result of countless interviews of veterans from both camps over a period of eleven years, giving a whole new insight into the history of Kampfgruppe Peiper. An overview that differs considerably from what has been asserted and written for 45 years, and which is based on evidence provided by American veterans, the West Point Military Academy, the US Senate, German and Belgian witnesses, and Alumni of several networks of Ardennes resistance.

The truth about Baugnez is now recorded in this file, indispensable for a better knowledge of the history of the Second World War.

This book is a beautiful album with two main parts:

In the first part, the author, tells how he began his investigation and gives an account, hour by hour, of the engagement of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes, from 16 to 25 December 1944. This Part of the book presents numerous details and testimonies, accompanied by numerous photos and some twenty maps, plans and sketches.

The second part is devoted to the investigation, the Dachau trial and the reconstruction of events.